Every one of us have things that we believe about ourselves when nobody else is looking, nobody else is listening, nobody else is monitoring what we're doing. We believe things about ourselves.

Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don't choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe.

Take it from a guy: If you're in love with somebody, you will swim the stream, you will climb the mountain, you will slay the dragon. You're going to get to her somehow, some way.

In life you have three options with any situation that is a challenge. Remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it.

Instead of being ashamed of what you've been through, be proud of what you have overcome!

Relationships are negotiated and if you deal with ultimatums and authority all the time, then you're not going to get anywhere.

You have got to decide, look, this is who I am; this is my best way to present myself, and I'm going to ride that horse to the finish line. Not everybody will like it, but that's OK.

If you don't have a plan, days turn into weeks, weeks turn into months, months turn into years, and before you know it you're looking back saying, I should've had a plan.

People have the right to think and say whatever they want to. But you have the right not to take it to heart, and not to react.

Unless you know who you are, you will always be vulnerable to what people say.

People who have nothing to hide, hide nothing. You should be an open book, be transparent.

If you were a bird, and lived on high, You'd lean on the wind when the wind came by, You'd say to the wind when it took you away:"That's where I wanted to go today!

The only cure for suffering is to face it head on, grasp it round the neck and use it.

With what has occurred in my life, the baseball field is where I feel most comfortable. That's what I feel I was born to do and it's what I do best.

I have a theory that Southern madhouses are full of gifted women who were stifled.

I sing in five or six different voices that are all part of me. Its not contrived.

People like Beck and Shawn Colvin are some of the people I listen to lately.

There is not so agonizing a feeling in the whole catalogue of human suffering as the first conviction that the heart of the being whom we most tenderly love is estranged from us.

Christophe, with the careful tone of an adult telling a kid not to pet the nice foaming-rabid pooch.

Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.

In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.